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BREAKING - Texas Secession Petition just keeps growing and growing! | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27568470  Belgium11/12/2012 10:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As a non-Texan I do think that Texas (and California) "could" survive as independent economic countries, whereas most others states, and even some entire regions could NOT. 25,000,000 people is clearly enough people for creating a country. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25450407 I will point out though with current Demographic trends Hispanics WILL outnumber Whites in Texas by 2020, and when combined with Blacks (about 12% of the population), the current minorities in that State will greatly outnumber Whites by then. And then, don't forget about Mecha. Are they still very active ? This is a movement which, in a nation with this kind of a population, might be a strong influence for "bonding" with the mother country (by which I mean Mexico). All kinds of things could happen. |
saturn12 User ID: 15530582  United States11/12/2012 11:04 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27568470 Belgium11/12/2012 11:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OMG.... Quoting: CowgirlK Just went to the site: [link to petitions.whitehouse.gov (secure)] to sign the petition and it said... "You've already signed this petition" That is a flat out lie!!! I have NOT signed the petition. Now we have Petition fraud! This government never ceases to amaze me. I guess you should better say : this government is always living up to my expectations. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5020038 United States11/12/2012 11:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It does NOT count unless you LIVE in the state of Texas.....Sooooooo...just signing a petition for the SAKE of Texas, or any other state....will not Count unless you LIVE Quoting: saturn12 there Not true. CBS news said you do not have to live in that state to vote according to the site, just need 25,000 signatures. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27568470 Belgium11/12/2012 11:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Let them secede. Then the US can bomb the hell out of them and turn Texas into a parking lot. Fucking treasonous bastards... Quoting: MidwestGuy 26703676 marxist dork.... * California Has Been Abandoned by the Federal Government In California's greatest hour of need she was brutaly abandoned by the federal government, under both Democratic and Republican administrations. When California was devasted by an energy crisis artificially created by hostile forces in other states, the federal government did nothing to protect her and actively held California's hands by her side so she could not defend herself from her attackers. This purposeful betrayal broke the sacred trust between Calfornia and the federal government. Under which president did this happen ? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27565961 United States11/12/2012 11:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27568470 Belgium11/12/2012 11:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Let's suppose for an instant Texas has seceded and is now an independent republic. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27568470 What if Mexico, who has resented having lost Texas for a long time if I am not mistaken, attacks Texas in a sudden war of conquest in an attempt to get it back for good ? Will the US (of the 49 statesq) step in ? You mistake the relationship between Texas and Mexico. That wouldn't happen. We are trading partners. Mexicans have always been a part of Texas. There is alot of Mexican influence in our culture. Now we'd surely come down harder on the border than the feds especially with all the violence there these days but Texas and Mexico are pretty close. Have a look at any Texas town next month and just watch how many Mexicans go home for the holidays. They take money to their family there then come back. It's all very intertwined. That's why immigration policy is so complicated for border states. With it you have a friendship and a close relation but also a problem. I understand this intertwining, intimate relationship factor. But on a political level, are you sure there aren't forces who would be active in trying to "give back" Texas to Mexico ? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24537691  Canada11/12/2012 11:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Red Harvest User ID: 14185604 United States11/13/2012 12:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 50,000 is a small city very impressive. Three bearded beings, the "Star-gods," each holding a star in his right hand, which is stretched aloft, and with his left towing a small boat containing the "Face of the Disk." ~Book of the Gates. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1107172 United States11/13/2012 12:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | General Dynamics used to have facilities in Texas. I think they built F-16's there in Fort Worth. Texas Instruments is there. NASA Mission Control is there. Plenty of other high-tech and defense oriented stuff is in Texas. Ingenious Texans would find a way to apply this if needed in a border war. Mexico wouldn't have a shadow of a chance. AMen brother. We've got Stewart and Stevenson, KBR, and Slumberger too. No worries about us. We would kick their asses. We can only HOPE that Rick Perry will grow and set and start the ball rolling. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24537507 United States11/13/2012 12:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27596742  Sweden11/13/2012 12:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I hope their new republic or country or whatever they're calling themselves won't be relying on tourism to heavily as a source of income. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27382151 Place is a wasteland. a waste land sitting on top of more oil and natural gas than anywhere else. A waste land that uses more alternative energy than anywhere else. A wasteland with more cattle, wild game and farm land than anywhere else. A wasteland with a access to the sea for trade Not sounding like a wasteland to me. Maybe he meant it's a Vast land of plenty? As you know everything is bigger in Texas :D |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27596742 Sweden11/13/2012 12:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| dugech User ID: 27171799 United States11/13/2012 12:26 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | States where residents have filed secession petitions include: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. [link to www.huffingtonpost.com] Last Edited by dugech on 11/13/2012 12:27 AM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27382151 United States11/13/2012 12:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in Texas and I will fight on the USA side. I didn't vote for Obama, but I'm not throwing in my lot with a bunch of fucking retards (which is what you "secessionists" are). Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23884908 Oh don't be a fucking idiot. Of course no one is seceding. We're making a statement to the Idiot in Chief. Just like those OWS assholes huh? Oh the irony. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 23011194 United States11/13/2012 12:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19386256 United States11/13/2012 12:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | General Dynamics used to have facilities in Texas. I think they built F-16's there in Fort Worth. Texas Instruments is there. NASA Mission Control is there. Plenty of other high-tech and defense oriented stuff is in Texas. Ingenious Texans would find a way to apply this if needed in a border war. Mexico wouldn't have a shadow of a chance. AMen brother. We've got Stewart and Stevenson, KBR, and Slumberger too. No worries about us. We would kick their asses. We can only HOPE that Rick Perry will grow and set and start the ball rolling. Would America leave any military property (NAVY,Air Force,ARMY,nuclear weapons) in Texas before allowing a separation? Texas would be left defenseless and vulnerable for a Mexican strike. You're as good as dead. |
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| WAKEUPAMERICA01 User ID: 24094200 United States11/13/2012 12:50 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It hasn't been our government for some time. Not even the same one that this country was founded on. WAKE UP AMERICA "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776 "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 4, September 11, 1777 "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President. "A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, [79 years now in 2012] freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have in varying degrees been abridged by laws brought into force by statutes of national emergency." |
| Dr.DoomLittle User ID: 6231580 United States11/13/2012 12:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Dr.DoomLittle User ID: 6231580 United States11/13/2012 12:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | notice that the tag line on the whitehouse petition page says "your voice in our government" I thought it was our voice in our government. Well that's what I was taught in School. Oh well Quoting: RosesOnFire We have no voice, therefore we have no representation. Corporate banking interest have stolen our freedom through the deflationary money system, and covert corruption of the politicians to grow public debt Last Edited by Intergalactic Diplomat on 11/13/2012 12:54 AM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27600901 United States11/13/2012 12:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As a non-Texan I do think that Texas (and California) "could" survive as independent economic countries, whereas most others states, and even some entire regions could NOT. 25,000,000 people is clearly enough people for creating a country. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25450407 I will point out though with current Demographic trends Hispanics WILL outnumber Whites in Texas by 2020, and when combined with Blacks (about 12% of the population), the current minorities in that State will greatly outnumber Whites by then. And then, don't forget about Mecha. Are they still very active ? This is a movement which, in a nation with this kind of a population, might be a strong influence for "bonding" with the mother country (by which I mean Mexico). All kinds of things could happen. Well, then, they should just send ALL the mexicans back to mexico and all the blacks to africa |
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